0776 Effects of Perceived Discrimination on Sleep and Internalizing and Externalizing Behaviors in Hispanic/Latinx Adolescents
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Abstract
Abstract Introduction Racism negatively affects children’s health, behavior, and relationships. Current literature focuses on associations between perceived discrimination and daytime behaviors in children and adolescents, with less known about associations with sleep behavior, an essential aspect on health during development. Racial/ethnic minorities, including Hispanic/Latinx youth, are at increased risk of sleep problems, along with mental health issues. Here, we examined the relationship between perceived discrimination and sleep and behavioral problems, and the potential role of familial cultural heritage connectedness as a mediator, in Hispanic/Latinx adolescents in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study®. Methods Data were analyzed from 1,213 Hispanic/Latinx adolescents (Mean age =11.89 years, range: 10-14 years, 48.22% female), collected as part of the ongoing ABCD Study® from the 2nd year follow up. Sleep was assessed with a question about having trouble falling or staying asleep in the past two weeks from the Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia (KSADS-5) (youth-report). Participants completed the Perceived Discrimination scale, an 11-item self-report about racial/ethnic perceived discrimination in the past year from teachers, peers, and other adults. Cultural heritage connectedness was gathered from the Vancouver Index of Acculturation (caregiver-report). Internalizing and externalizing behaviors were assessed using the Child Behavior Checklist (caregiver-report). Regression models examined associations between perceived discrimination and sleep behavior and externalizing/internalizing behavior, considering age, socio-demographic characteristics, parental education, and familial immigration status. Results Perceived discrimination correlated with more sleep problems (p< 0.01), with a stronger effect in female than male participants (p< 0.01). Perceived discrimination was also associated with internalizing and externalizing behaviors (p< 0.01). Connectedness to cultural heritage partially mediated the association between perceived discrimination and externalizing behaviors (p< 0.01), but not with sleep problems or internalizing behaviors. Conclusion Results show perceived discrimination is associated with sleep problems in Hispanic/Latinx adolescents, with a stronger relationship in female participants. Future investigation of links between perceived discrimination and health outcomes, including sleep and behaviors, is needed using longitudinal data and youth self-reports of the Vancouver Index of Acculturation, rather than caregiver reports to further investigate the potential role of cultural connectedness is these relationships. Support (if any) NIH U01DA041022
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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